Outside Before & Afters

Before and afters of the outside:

 Front

 Side of Driveway

 Boulevard

 Side of House

 Back

 Back Patio

 Side of Garage

 Back and side of Garage

 Corner of Backyard

Shed

Ripping out Bushes (3/25/12)

This spring we pulled out some bushes up front.  There were 4 of them in a small space, they needed to be trimmed all the time to even tell there were 3 separate ones and I really didn't like the style of them anyways.  So we took them out!  I put in some decorative grass and am still trying to figure what else to put in the space.  

Before:

Ripping them out:

After:

Closet Doors

Jonah and Evan have been sharing a room....at times it went well, but for the most part it was pretty crazy!!  Getting to sleep was the hard part, they would keep each other up.  It was either a party or a cry-fest before bed.  Most of August Jonah was having a very hard time falling asleep and would have to cry it out for quite some time, this meant Evan would not want to stay in the room until he fell asleep so he'd hang out in the living room with us until at least 9:00.  

With school starting we decided it was time to move Jonah downstairs into the extra bedroom; this way we could get everyone to bed a little earlier and everyone would get better sleep.  We had been using the bedroom downstairs as a toy room and we never put the closet door on when we refinished the room.  It was just easy to put some shelves in with lots of toys.  The doors still needed to be painted white so I primed and painted them this week and Mike hung them and added new matching knobs.

Finished doors:

Grass

TruGreen came out yesterday to aerate and put down grass seed in both the front and back yard.  HOPEFULLY it comes in nicely and we have a beautiful yard again in the spring!

Losing Battle with the Grass!

After a hot summer our grass in the back yard looks horrible!!  We are SO disappointed!  We had TruGreen fertilize for us all summer and probably in the last month we could not water the back enough; almost all of it has died.  There were obvious dead area's that TruGreen had sprayed for weeds so we had them come out and take a look at those area's.  Come to find out we actually have grubs.  They eat away at the roots of the grass killing the grass.  TruGreen was supposed to spray for insects, but they missed the grubs.  So free of charge, they put down insect killer and will be coming back to thatch and over-seed.  It will be interesting to see what they do, literally you can roll up the dead grass like sod :(  So disappointing!

Beautiful Grass (4/2012)

Our grass came back beautifully this spring!  So green and lush, we were so happy after all that we went through last summer that it came in so nice!!

Closet Door (3/2012)

Our bedroom is pretty small.....and so is the closet.  We put a door on it to match all the others and Mike planned to modify it by cutting it in half so we have a door on each side to open in order to clear the bed frame.  Here is the finished door, it turned out really nice!